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Page 83
... humanity comprehended the whole animated creation , and nothing could break the tenor of his temper , but the spectacle of oppression or of cruelty . His failings ( and the most favoured of our poor species are not without failings ) ...
... humanity comprehended the whole animated creation , and nothing could break the tenor of his temper , but the spectacle of oppression or of cruelty . His failings ( and the most favoured of our poor species are not without failings ) ...
Page 145
... human throng , One kindred soul , or , met , preserve him long . When fortune , now determined to be kind , Yields the rich gift , and mind is link'd to mind , Death mocks the fond possession , bursts the chain , And plants the bosom ...
... human throng , One kindred soul , or , met , preserve him long . When fortune , now determined to be kind , Yields the rich gift , and mind is link'd to mind , Death mocks the fond possession , bursts the chain , And plants the bosom ...
Page 147
... human mind Can hope for audience all the human kind . Enough for me , I ask no more renown , ( Lost to the world , to Britain only known , ) He expresses the same generous and patriotic sentiment in one of his prose tracts . " For which ...
... human mind Can hope for audience all the human kind . Enough for me , I ask no more renown , ( Lost to the world , to Britain only known , ) He expresses the same generous and patriotic sentiment in one of his prose tracts . " For which ...
Page 161
... human abilities have the power to command ; and has been insulted for not sending , from his little academy , orators and poets , philoso- phers and divines . No master can make scholars against the inhibition of nature ; and solitary ...
... human abilities have the power to command ; and has been insulted for not sending , from his little academy , orators and poets , philoso- phers and divines . No master can make scholars against the inhibition of nature ; and solitary ...
Page 188
... human origin of episcopacy , as a peculiar order in the church , invested with spiritual rights and powers , distinct in kind and preeminent in degree . That an officer with the title of › episcopus , or overseer , ( corrupted at first ...
... human origin of episcopacy , as a peculiar order in the church , invested with spiritual rights and powers , distinct in kind and preeminent in degree . That an officer with the title of › episcopus , or overseer , ( corrupted at first ...
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